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In article <D.Nash-1411941119320001@bubba.ots.utexas.edu>,
Donald L. Nash <D.Nash@utexas.edu> wrote:
>In article <3a83hm$sb3@bashful.cc.utexas.edu>, orb@bashful.cc.utexas.edu
>(Norman Richards) wrote:
>>Maybe I am selfish
>>here, but if I am riding my bike I am not going to ride 10 blocks out of my
>>way when I can simply take shortcut across sidewalk and be where I want to 
>>be.
>This is the sort of attitude that makes a lot of drivers hate all
>bicyclists (even thought not all of them are guilty of this).  If you're
>going to exercise your right to the road, then you must also live up to
>all the restrictions that go with it.  If bikers are to be treated just
>like motorists, then they must behave just like motorists with respect to
>obeying *all* the traffic laws.  Your personal convenience does not take
>precedence over the law.
  What causes them to hate bikes, to me at least, seems to be envy.  I
choose to use a form of transportation that is cheaper, more convenient,
better for the environment, funner, etc...  I certainly don't think the
world owes me anything for exclusively using my bike for transportation,
but biking has it's perks.  One of which is its added maneuverability
in that a biker can occasionaly choose a shrot-cut which saves him
time.  Cars don't have that option.  Tough.  If you choose to drive
a noisy, polluting, money-sucking, tension-raising lazy method of
trnasportation then you get the standard transportation package.  But when
I get on my bike, I can take pleasure in that ocassionally I don't have
to live in that world and I can serve my own "personal convenience".  That
doesn't give me the right to inconvenience other forms fo traffic nor
to interfere with pedestrians, but it does  give some perks.  

  I don't see why people have such a hard time accepting that.  If 
traffic is heavy and I pop onto the sidewalk and cut accross a field
to another street with better throughput - what is wrong with that? 
Nothing except that car drivers are too envious that they don't have 
that same ability.  (IMHO :)

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